Hello All,
I got into saltwater tanks about 4 months ago. We started with a 25 tall, and didnt want to spend alot and still be able to keep a fowlr tank. We now have a 29 instead of the 25, and a 90 with a 30gal? sump. The 29 has a 50w heater, 30 lbs(2 1/2-3") live sand, 30 lbs of random live rock, aqua c remora nano, koralia nano 425, koralia nano 240, an aquatop 400uv canister with ONLY filter pads in it, and for lighting a 24" dual t5 ho with a power glo in the front and a marine glo in the back. The back gets an hour and a half of indirect light through the blinds, there is double the algae on the back because of this. I run the lights from 11am to 8pm. The livestock consists of 1 purple firefish 2", 1 orchid dottyback 2", 1 yellow faced goby dude that puts in work 2", 1 black and white clown 1 1/2", 2 heads of frogspawn. for cleaners we have: 5 small turbo 1 large, 5 nass snails, 2 conical dudes, 3 scarlet hermits, 8 blue leg hermits, lots of white pods, 2 blooms of tigger pods since introduction, and happy to say...the bigger pods are in the rocks as well.
As for the 90gal. I picked up this tank used and was very lucky, even though i needed to update/replace things. The tank is an older 90gal. oceanic tech tank, single left side overflow, mag 9.5 return wide open used for flow as well, old euroreef skimmer with 590 gph pump seems to pull pretty good,
heater, 3 1/2" sand bed with chaeto and 5lb LR in fuge with 11" t5 running opposite of day lights. Livestock in 90 is: 1-14" rbta(came with tank and was pissed), 1-4"rainbowBTA, 1 blue tang 2", 1 sailfin tang 2", 2 tomatoe clown(pair), 2 blue/green chromis 1 1/2", 1 six line dbag 1 1/2", 1 tank bred nemo that should prolly go away 2", 1 very active cleaner shrimp, 2 ate the bejesus outta some aptasia peps, 1 frogspawn colony with 12 big heads(10 new starts), 1 torch with 3 heads, 1 with 4, 3 small zoa frags, 2 frogspawn frags with 3 heads.
more to come. thanks, mike
I got into saltwater tanks about 4 months ago. We started with a 25 tall, and didnt want to spend alot and still be able to keep a fowlr tank. We now have a 29 instead of the 25, and a 90 with a 30gal? sump. The 29 has a 50w heater, 30 lbs(2 1/2-3") live sand, 30 lbs of random live rock, aqua c remora nano, koralia nano 425, koralia nano 240, an aquatop 400uv canister with ONLY filter pads in it, and for lighting a 24" dual t5 ho with a power glo in the front and a marine glo in the back. The back gets an hour and a half of indirect light through the blinds, there is double the algae on the back because of this. I run the lights from 11am to 8pm. The livestock consists of 1 purple firefish 2", 1 orchid dottyback 2", 1 yellow faced goby dude that puts in work 2", 1 black and white clown 1 1/2", 2 heads of frogspawn. for cleaners we have: 5 small turbo 1 large, 5 nass snails, 2 conical dudes, 3 scarlet hermits, 8 blue leg hermits, lots of white pods, 2 blooms of tigger pods since introduction, and happy to say...the bigger pods are in the rocks as well.
As for the 90gal. I picked up this tank used and was very lucky, even though i needed to update/replace things. The tank is an older 90gal. oceanic tech tank, single left side overflow, mag 9.5 return wide open used for flow as well, old euroreef skimmer with 590 gph pump seems to pull pretty good,
heater, 3 1/2" sand bed with chaeto and 5lb LR in fuge with 11" t5 running opposite of day lights. Livestock in 90 is: 1-14" rbta(came with tank and was pissed), 1-4"rainbowBTA, 1 blue tang 2", 1 sailfin tang 2", 2 tomatoe clown(pair), 2 blue/green chromis 1 1/2", 1 six line dbag 1 1/2", 1 tank bred nemo that should prolly go away 2", 1 very active cleaner shrimp, 2 ate the bejesus outta some aptasia peps, 1 frogspawn colony with 12 big heads(10 new starts), 1 torch with 3 heads, 1 with 4, 3 small zoa frags, 2 frogspawn frags with 3 heads.
more to come. thanks, mike
